Frases de Raymond Carver

„Es octubre, un día húmedo. Desde la ventana del hotel veo demasiadas cosas de esta ciudad del Medio Oeste. Veo cómo se encienden las luces de algunos edificios, veo cómo el humo de las altas chimeneas se alza en columnas espesas. Me gustaría no tener que mirar.“

—  Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

„Los sueños son eso de lo que uno se despierta.“

—  Raymond Carver

Cathedral

„Iba a contaros algo -empezó Mel-. Bueno, iba a demostrar algo. Veréis: sucedió hace unos meses, pero sigue sucediendo en este mismo instante, y es algo que debería hacer que nos avergoncemos cuando hablamos como si supiéramos de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor.“

—  Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

„Podía escuchar mi corazón latir. Podía escuchar el corazón de todos. Podía escuchar el ruido humano que hacíamos allí sentados, ninguno de nosotros nos movíamos, ni siquiera cuando la habitación se oscureció.“

—  Raymond Carver

„Hay en el alma un deseo de no pensar. De estar quieto. Emparejado con éste, un deseo de ser estricto, sí, y riguroso. Pero el alma también es una afable hija de puta no siempre de fiar.“

—  Raymond Carver

„Si somos lectores o escritores afortunados, terminamos la última frase de un cuento y nos quedamos sentados tranquilamente. Pensamos en lo que hemos escrito o leído y puede que nuestros corazones o nuestras mentes hayan dado un paso hacia delante. Puede que nuestra temperatura corporal haya subido o bajado un grado. Entonces, respirando hondamente, nos reponemos y nos levantamos, “criaturas de sangre caliente y nervios”, que dice un personaje de Chejov. Y pasamos a otra cosa. A la vida. Siempre a la vida.“

—  Raymond Carver

„¿Y tú que querías? Llamarme amado, a sentirme amado en la tierra.“

—  Raymond Carver

„Creo que en el amor no somos más que principiantes. Decimos“

—  Raymond Carver

De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor

„I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.“

—  Raymond Carver

„It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.“

—  Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Variante: and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

„There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.“

—  Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

„I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.“

—  Raymond Carver

Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

„Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.“

—  Raymond Carver

„And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.“

—  Raymond Carver

„And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.“

—  Raymond Carver, libro A New Path to the Waterfall

Fuente: A New Path to the Waterfall

„That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.“

—  Raymond Carver

„But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.“

—  Raymond Carver

Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

„Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.“

—  Raymond Carver, libro Cathedral

Fuente: Cathedral

„Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.“

—  Raymond Carver

Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories